BeerAdvocate magazine - #120 (January 2017)

In this issue

On the Cover: Brewmaster-blender Shawn Johnson and his wife Lindsay opened Birds Fly South Ale Project, their South Carolina brewery, in September. Read more about the Class of 2016 on page 48. Photo by Jack Sorokin.

Big In Japan

Stouts in the Land of the Rising Sun.

4 mins

Happily Single

It’s a Wednesday night in Prague and I’m sitting in a popular, newish beer hall just outside of the tourist zone. It’s packed with hundreds of young locals, seated at square tables, deep in conversation interrupted only by quick jolts of laughter at a joke told well. While it’s remarkable that almost no one is on a phone, there is one thing even more striking: everyone is drinking the same beer.

2 mins

Drew Fox

Founder and Head Brewer, 18th Street Brewery.

5 mins

The Southern Brewing Company

Home of the University of Georgia Bulldogs and musical legends such as REM and the B-52s, Athens, Ga., is a cultural hub known for its eclectic dining, music, arts, and more recently, for its rapidly evolving beer culture.

5 mins

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BeerAdvocate is a quarterly magazine that celebrates beer, its culture, its history, and its community. Since launching in 2006, the goal of BeerAdvocate has been to provide fresh, honest, and insightful stories on beer and brewing. To date, our talented contributors have won 12 awards from the North American Guild of Beer Writers for their work.